Arlington "options" elementary schools - screen use?
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Anonymous
These are the exact apps every other elementary school uses iPads for. Ours does not send the iPads home. Or if they do, it just goes back and forth and is never used at our home. |
Anonymous
| Parents should have access to “lightspeed” which lets you see exactly what your student did on their iPad and their screen time. |
Anonymous
how do you find that? |
Anonymous
Yes I never said ATS was special or different from other Arlington schools when it comes to apps. I was responding to the PP claiming that ATS doesn’t use the iPad at all. |
Anonymous
Yeah I was like wait is this an ats parent?? I’m not one but I did a tour there last year and they definitely said they use the iPads and couldn’t compare with whether they use them more or less than other APS schools. Op I am extremely low screen at home and in my dream world there would be very little of it at school but I have felt good about my child’s experience at cardinal (likely similar to discovery and others) - they do use it some for math and phonics but they don’t bring it home (in second now) and the majority of the day is not that. |
Anonymous
This sounds very similar to my child’s neighborhood APS school. |
Anonymous
and Reflex. Can confirm. (ATS parent) |
Anonymous
They were clearly lying to stir the pot. |
Anonymous
| I don;t know the answer, but lots of people really dislike Discovery, so maybe apply to the option schools just to avoid Discovery. |
Anonymous
I work in LCPS, but my experience has been that math fact fluency has gone down noticeably since they stopped giving timed math facts quizzes. I guess they decided it was too stressful for kids who didn’t know their math facts? I saw it even with my own children - one who went through before the change and one after. Now instead they get to the upper elementary grades not even knowing basic mult/div facts and sometimes can’t even add/subtract properly! But I’m sure glad we didn’t hurt their feelings with timed quizzes in 2nd grade! |
Anonymous
Just an update, they no longer use dreambox and have switched to IXL. I’m guessing this is an APS thing? Lexia is also different from last year - some updated version. They still use reflex. |
Anonymous
As someone who is good at math and was a STEM major, I don't really think the answer is timed quizzes. I think math facts are best learned by just doing more problems so you practice using the facts. That's how you build fluency. It's like reading--kids are supposed to read for 20-30 minutes a night. Kids really should be practicing math regularly by doing problems. I don't have specific data on math facts, but if you look at the NWEA data, math skills are dropping nationwide and across all demographics. You can test this easily with your own kids. Give them a sheet of grade-level math problems. If they're slowed down by thinking about addition/subtraction or multiplication/division facts then they need more practice. |
Anonymous
As an FYI, it appears that IXL was rolled out at the elementary level with zero teacher training. My kid's math teacher has no idea how to use the software and has just been telling kids to figure it out themselves. I had my middle schooler, who has used IXL a lot, give my elementary student a tutorial on how it works. |
Anonymous
| Sounds like ATS uses iPads for Lexia, Dream Box, etc, just like other APS schools so made up drama. |
Anonymous
We are in Discovery. Everyone we know loves Discovery and feels very lucky to be zoned there. Sometimes I get the feeling there is jealousy. |